Asian Track Cycling Championships: Hong Kong continue medal rush as experienced duo claim bronzes
- Mow Ching-yin and Leung Bo-yee both earn bronze in points races in New Delhi, although city’s wait for gold goes on
- Their podium finishes took Hong Kong up to five senior medals after four of the event’s six days
Hong Kong are celebrating more medal success at the Asian Track Cycling Championships after Mow Ching-yin and Leung Bo-yee each stormed to bronze in their respective points race finals in New Delhi.
With two days of competition remaining, acting head coach Herve Dagorne’s team had captured five medals – albeit that their ambitions of notching up Hong Kong’s first golds since 2020 so far remained out of reach.
Mow, 28, replicated his third-placed points race finish from the 2023 championships in Malaysia. Japanese rider Naoki Kojima, 23, led from start to finish at the Indira Gandhi Stadium Velodrome to win the 40km, 160-lap race for a second successive year.
Silver in the non-Olympic discipline went to Kazakhstan’s Alisher Zhumakan, enabling him to gain a modicum of revenge on Mow, who beat the 27-year-old to the scratch race gold four years ago.
Last year’s silver medallist, Chang Chih-sheng of Taiwan, trailed home in sixth place.
